Alfonso García Zafra, the head teacher of the Juan Caro public primary school in Melilla, one of the two Spanish enclaves in North Africa, sent an advisory letter to the parents of the pupils, who began fasting as Ramadan started last week, according to Mundo Deportivo newspaper. READ MORE:Making kids attend Christian worship at school […]
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Gwangju Democracy Protest, And Massacre; US Was Complicit
Print Friendly Above: A mural displayed in Kwangju (Gwangju), South Corea, depicting the liberation of the city in May 1980, from Corean martial law troops who had seized control of the country. Photo courtesy of the May 18 Memorial Foundation. This week Corean peace activists organized a protest in remembrance of the democracy uprising in Gwangju, […]
More Disruptions At Oil and Gas Lease Sale
Print Friendly Above photo: From Greenpeace. SALT LAKE CITY—Dozens of people disrupted another Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas lease sale in Salt Lake City. This action is on the heels of other large protests and disruptions calling for an immediate end to all fossil fuel development on public land. As soon as the […]
Diplomatic correspondence reveals Riyadh could have known about assassination plot on Yemen ex-president
The diplomatic correspondence of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Sanaa, obtained by Sputnik, revealed that Riyadh could have been aware of the preparation of the 2011 assassination attempt on former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. As several marked “top secret” telegrams of the diplomatic mission claimed that Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, the […]
Thousands Protest As Japanese Gov Ushers In New Age Of Militarism
Print Friendly Above Photo: Demonstrators protest against the new security law as they rally outside the Diet building in Tokyo. (Photo: AFP) Turning its back on decades of pacifism, controversial ‘war legislation’ takes effect Thousands of anti-war protesters rallied outside the parliament building in Tokyo on Tuesday, railing against the Japanese government’s new so-called security law […]
Pope Francis imposes new regulations on saint-making process after financial abuses surface
The new regulations will require Vatican bank accounts created for beatification and canonization purposes to be externally monitored, AP reported. Beatification is recognition granted by the Catholic Church of a deceased person’s entrance into heaven and ability to intercede on behalf of people who pray in his or her name. Canonization is the official process […]
ISS crew returns to Earth after nearly year in space
Besides Kelly and Kornienko a third crew member of Expedition 46 – a Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, was delivered back to earth. He was less fortunate and spent only 182 days in orbit. Russian recovery forces stationed nearby rushed to the landing site to help the returning heroes to get out of the cramped descent […]